Monday, 7 November 2011

The Bloody Chamber


"He loved to surprise me in my abstracted solitude at the piano and softly creep up behind me with a bouquet of hothouse flowers or his box of marrons glaces."

I was influenced by the work of Odilon Redon, the french symbolist painter and pastellist (1848-1916) whose flambuoyant style seemed appropriate for illustrating the stories of Angela Carter.

I used black and white for the characters to try and convey a sense of pure and unpure, good and bad.

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